Diana Matovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 213861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Matovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Matovic |
| SIGNATURE | MATOVIC D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4992-8793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The positivity effect is robust to health and social content in ambiguous scenario interpretation
These studies investigated whether the positivity effect in older adults results in positively valenced interpretations of ambiguous scenarios and whether personally relevant health content and induced positive and negative moods attenuate or moderate the effect. In two studies conducted in 2022 and 2023, older ( n Study1 = 31, M ageStudy1 = 72.16, SD ageStudy1 = 7.81, n Study2 = 51, M ageStudy2 = 71.64, SD ageStudy2 = 6.39) and younger ( n Study…
Older adults’ attitudes and motivations towards learning about personal dementia risk and their willingness to make changes to improve their health in primary care settings
Objective This study assessed older adults' preferences, attitudes, and motivations to understand and change their individual risk for developing dementia via screening in primary care settings
Necessary but not sufficient
Objective This study examined the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and physical distancing requirements on engagement with and sense of connectedness to social activities among older adults.Method Community-dwelling cognitively healthy older adults (N = 126) completed self-report questionnaires post-lock down (November 2020 to February 2021) assessing participation format (face-to-face with restrictions, online), frequency of attendance, and connecte…
Mood Effects on Humor Production
Can mood influence people's ability to produce humorous verbal messages? Based on recent theories linking affect to social cognition and information-processing strategies, this experiment predicted and found that positive mood increased people's ability to generate more creative, humorous, and elaborate verbal contents. Participants viewed positive, neutral, or negative videos, then produced verbal captions to fit four different cartoon images. T…
Mood effects on ingratiation
The Answer Is in the Question? Mood Effects on Processing Verbal Information and Impression Formation
Can good or bad mood influence how people process verbal information about others? Based on affect-cognition theories, this experiment predicted and found that the way a question is phrased has a greater influence on impressions than actual answers when judges are experiencing a negative rather than a neutral or positive mood. After an audiovisual mood induction, participants witnessed interview questions and responses by two target characters. T…
Can negative mood improve your conversation? Affective influences on conforming to Grice's communication norms
Can temporary mood influence people's communication strategies? According to Grice's cooperative principle, conversational utterances should ideally conform to the maxims of quantity, relevance, quality, and manner. Three experiments predicted and found that participants in a negative mood complied significantly better with Grice's maxims than did participants in a positive mood when using natural language to describe a previously observed social…
Can negative mood improve language understanding? Affective influences on the ability to detect ambiguous communication
Can negative mood improve language understanding? Affective influences on the ability to detect ambiguous communication
Mood effects on ingratiation
Can negative mood improve your conversation? Affective influences on conforming to Grice's communication norms
Can temporary mood influence people's communication strategies? According to Grice's cooperative principle, conversational utterances should ideally conform to the maxims of quantity, relevance, quality, and manner. Three experiments predicted and found that participants in a negative mood complied significantly better with Grice's maxims than did participants in a positive mood when using natural language to describe a previously observed social…
The Answer Is in the Question? Mood Effects on Processing Verbal Information and Impression Formation
Can good or bad mood influence how people process verbal information about others? Based on affect-cognition theories, this experiment predicted and found that the way a question is phrased has a greater influence on impressions than actual answers when judges are experiencing a negative rather than a neutral or positive mood. After an audiovisual mood induction, participants witnessed interview questions and responses by two target characters. T…
Mood Effects on Humor Production
Can mood influence people's ability to produce humorous verbal messages? Based on recent theories linking affect to social cognition and information-processing strategies, this experiment predicted and found that positive mood increased people's ability to generate more creative, humorous, and elaborate verbal contents. Participants viewed positive, neutral, or negative videos, then produced verbal captions to fit four different cartoon images. T…
Can negative mood improve your conversation? Affective influences on conforming to Grice's communication norms
Can temporary mood influence people's communication strategies? According to Grice's cooperative principle, conversational utterances should ideally conform to the maxims of quantity, relevance, quality, and manner. Three experiments predicted and found that participants in a negative mood complied significantly better with Grice's maxims than did participants in a positive mood when using natural language to describe a previously observed social…
Can negative mood improve language understanding? Affective influences on the ability to detect ambiguous communication
Mood effects on ingratiation
The Answer Is in the Question? Mood Effects on Processing Verbal Information and Impression Formation
Can good or bad mood influence how people process verbal information about others? Based on affect-cognition theories, this experiment predicted and found that the way a question is phrased has a greater influence on impressions than actual answers when judges are experiencing a negative rather than a neutral or positive mood. After an audiovisual mood induction, participants witnessed interview questions and responses by two target characters. T…
Mood Effects on Humor Production
Can mood influence people's ability to produce humorous verbal messages? Based on recent theories linking affect to social cognition and information-processing strategies, this experiment predicted and found that positive mood increased people's ability to generate more creative, humorous, and elaborate verbal contents. Participants viewed positive, neutral, or negative videos, then produced verbal captions to fit four different cartoon images. T…
Older adults’ attitudes and motivations towards learning about personal dementia risk and their willingness to make changes to improve their health in primary care settings
Objective This study assessed older adults' preferences, attitudes, and motivations to understand and change their individual risk for developing dementia via screening in primary care settings
Necessary but not sufficient
Objective This study examined the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and physical distancing requirements on engagement with and sense of connectedness to social activities among older adults.Method Community-dwelling cognitively healthy older adults (N = 126) completed self-report questionnaires post-lock down (November 2020 to February 2021) assessing participation format (face-to-face with restrictions, online), frequency of attendance, and connecte…
The positivity effect is robust to health and social content in ambiguous scenario interpretation
These studies investigated whether the positivity effect in older adults results in positively valenced interpretations of ambiguous scenarios and whether personally relevant health content and induced positive and negative moods attenuate or moderate the effect. In two studies conducted in 2022 and 2023, older ( n Study1 = 31, M ageStudy1 = 72.16, SD ageStudy1 = 7.81, n Study2 = 51, M ageStudy2 = 71.64, SD ageStudy2 = 6.39) and younger ( n Study…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Mood (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works)